Dong-Ha OH

“But it was hard to find these: few of the human financiers involved in debt, derivatives, or securitization world wanted to be quoted or photographed, and it was almost impossible to see the human borrowers at the end of the complex financial chains.”
― Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life

“When people such as Malinowski went to the Trobriand Islands, they were coming from a society that was more powerful than the one they were studying. In the City of London, financiers were far more powerful than journalists or anthropologists; the challenge was how to “study up.”
― Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life

“wherever you sit, in whatever blend of familiar and strange, it always pays to stop and ask yourself a simple question that the bankers on the Riviera were not asking: If I was to arrive in this culture, as a total stranger, or as a Martian or child, what might I see?”
― Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life

“None of the women in the women were eating in the daytime, unless they were pregnant or working, because they were observing the Muslim fast.”
― Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life